UFOMYST
CaseSphere2004

Apple Valley, MN, USA

approximately at 16:19 I was observing the sky (it was beautiful) and there were a few passenger planes passing, going in and out cloud

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-04
Where
Apple Valley, MN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3min
Geo
44.732, -93.218 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-apple-valley-mn-2004-59872b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 12 documented reports from Apple Valley, MN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Minnesota logged 75 sightings in 2004.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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